Alexa & voice commands

[maraimondo]

I would like my Wiim Amp had a feature. I try to explane it: when I tell “Alexa” to my Alexa device, Alexa reduce the volume (for example if there is a song playing in that moment) to hear better my request.

I connect my Alexa devide to Wiim amp, so I can ask Alexa to put music and wiim Amp can reproduce it to speaker but when I give another command to Alexa often I have to repeat the command to higher voice volume so that Alexa can hear.

In conclusion, I would like that Wiim reduce volume of that it’s playing when I ask something to Alexa.

If you want tell me your opinion about this feature.

Thank You

 

[Wiimer]

I would like my Wiim Amp had a feature. I try to explane it: when I tell “Alexa” to my Alexa device, Alexa reduce the volume (for example if there is a song playing in that moment) to hear better my request.

I connect my Alexa devide to Wiim amp, so I can ask Alexa to put music and wiim Amp can reproduce it to speaker but when I give another command to Alexa often I have to repeat the command to higher voice volume so that Alexa can hear.

In conclusion, I would like that Wiim reduce volume of that it’s playing when I ask something to Alexa.

If you want tell me your opinion about this feature.

Thank You

I could be wrong, but perhaps the Echo speaker (Alexa) can't automatically control the volume of the speaker for music (WiiM).

As you probably know, the music is automatically muted when using the mic button on the WiiM remote.

 

[Burnside]

Do you have your echo device physically connected to your WiiM amp? There should be no need to do that given you can set up your WiiM Amp to be the default speaker for the echo, or for an Alexa room/device group that the echo is in, assuming of course you have enabled Alexa for the WiiM Amp so that it appears in the Alexa app as a device. See the first half of this post: https://forum.wiimhome.com/threads/...lti-room-music-problems-getting-started.2016/

Either way, you can get the Amp to mute its volume by including it in the same Alexa room/device group as the echo - Alexa will “duck the volume” I.e. mute the volume of all echo and Alexa-enabled devices in that room group when a voice request is made to one of them.

You should also note that Alexa volume changes are done in multiples of ten steps on the WiiM given Alexa only accepts integer values from 1 to 10 while WiiM devices go from 0 to 100. Even if you ask for a percentage change e.g. “Alexa, set volume to 24%” , Alexa will round that to the nearest equivalent integer volume level I.e. in this case 2 or 20% on the WiiM.

Edit: I should have said that the volume ducking is done on the same premise as speaking to one device - the logic is that if the devices are all in the same room group, it’s very likely they share the same space so just muting the volume on one would be ineffective

 

[Wiimer]

Do you have your echo device physically connected to your WiiM amp? There should be no need to do that given you can set up your WiiM Amp to be the default speaker for the echo, or for an Alexa room/device group that the echo is in, assuming of course you have enabled Alexa for the WiiM Amp so that it appears in the Alexa app as a device. See the first half of this post: https://forum.wiimhome.com/threads/...lti-room-music-problems-getting-started.2016/

Either way, you can get the Amp to mute its volume by including it in the same Alexa room/device group as the echo - Alexa will “duck the volume” I.e. mute the volume of all echo and Alexa-enabled devices in that room group when a voice request is made to one of them.

You should also note that Alexa volume changes are done in multiples of ten steps on the WiiM given Alexa only accepts integer values from 1 to 10 while WiiM devices go from 0 to 100. Even if you ask for a percentage change e.g. “Alexa, set volume to 24%” , Alexa will round that to the nearest equivalent integer volume level I.e. in this case 2 or 20% on the WiiM.

Edit: I should have said that the volume ducking is done on the same premise as speaking to one device - the logic is that if the devices are all in the same room group, it’s very likely they share the same space so just muting the volume on one would be ineffective

Sorry if I'm wrong, but I think @maraimondo only wants to temporarily lower the volume of the Amp when using the Echo speaker's voice control?

 

[Burnside]

Sorry if I'm wrong, but I think @maraimondo only wants to temporarily lower the volume of the Amp when using the Echo speaker's voice control?

Yeah, that’s what volume ducking will do if the Amp is in the same Alexa room/device group as the echo. The other stuff was just for info

 

[Djinn206]

Yeah, that’s what volume ducking will do if the Amp is in the same Alexa room/device group as the echo. The other stuff was just for info

No, the amp stays at the same volume, it’s the same here on my end. And yes, my amp is in the same Alexa room/device group too.

 

[Burnside]

As a corollary, the physical connection to the Amp is probably undesirable as changing the echo’s volume changes the amp input level and only indirectly controls the amp output without changing the amp’s actual volume. Better to have them physically separately and logically individually controlled in my opinion.

 

[Wiimer]

Yeah, that’s what volume ducking will do if the Amp is in the same Alexa room/device group as the echo. The other stuff was just for info

My Echo Dot and Amp Ultra are in the kitchen group, and I ask Echo dot, "What's the weather like tomorrow?" the Amp volume does not go down when I speak to it. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Burnside]

No, the amp stays at the same volume, it’s the same here on my end. And yes, my amp is in the same Alexa room/device group too.

It’s a bug then, not a feature request

The OP should raise a ticket to WiiM via the more/feedback section in the app to get the Amp to conform with published echo behaviour.

 

[Burnside]

It’s a bug then, not a feature request

The OP should raise a ticket to WiiM via the more/feedback section in the app to get the Amp to conform with published echo behaviour.

I raised a ticket